(In her house lies a shrine to Trini, including Trang’s headshot.) Breaking baddies: Snizzard and Mighty Minotaur While Trini’s fate here is similarly devastating, the show at least leaves behind a daughter, Charlie Kersh’s Minh, whose quest for vengeance eventually leads her down the path of Rangerdom. Thuy Trang, who played Trini in the first season and a half of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, died in a car accident on Sept. Once & Always kicks off its downbeat prologue with a move practically unheard of in Ranger history: The death of a Power Ranger in battle, namely original Yellow Ranger Trini Kwan. So strap on your nostalgia goggles, hold out your Power Morphers, and let’s run through the bevy of references that eagle-eyed Ranger-heads can unearth in Once & Always. While this special is squarely for the first generation of Ranger fans, there are quite a few nods to lore and legacy from throughout the show’s decades-long (and counting!) run. (At the same time, the show serves as an extensive tribute to late Yellow Ranger actor Thuy Trang - and, by dint of sheer tragic timing, franchise icon Jason David Frank, who died by suicide late last year.)Īfter all, Power Rangers has run practically nonstop since its inception, spawning 30 seasons, dozens of Rangers and hundreds of Zords (and a heaping helping of lore in the meantime). The results are as bittersweet as they are achingly sincere, embracing the aw-shucks corniness of ’90s Rangers while throwing decades’ worth of member-berries at its prospective audience. Much to the delight of scores of ’90s kids, this week marked the release of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, a 30th-anniversary reunion special that brought back (some of) the original Rangers from the 1993 series and its follow-up seasons for one last jaunt ’round the Morphin Grid.
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